Follow this procedure for initializing and booting a diskless
or dataless machine using SMIT.
- On the NIM master, enter the smit
nim_dd_init fast path.
- Select the client to be initialized
from the list of clients displayed on your screen.
- Supply the values for the required
fields. Use the help information and the LIST option to help you specify
the correct values for the initialization options.
- After completion of the initialization
operation, boot the client machine over the network. If you are booting
from a network device, follow the procedures in your hardware documentation
to perform the network boot.
Note: On older model rspc systems,
it may be necessary to permanently set the bootlist from the firmware
menus to make the client always boot over the network. For other systems,
the bootlist is automatically set the first time the machine is booted
as a diskless/dataless client.
- After the client boots over the network
and performs some initialization, the client will display instructions
for you to select the console for the machine.